Israeli Violations in Palestine
The present report is a monthly report which has been prepared by Fatah Movement in Egypt -English Department- to provide an update on Israel’s violations and crimes against the land and people of Palestine, military notifications, settler attacks, racist and inciting statements, and activities aimed at creating and expanding settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Such grave violations of international law illustrate Israeli policies of annexation and colonization the it continues to commit.
1 Oct, 2020
- Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian shepherds to the east of Yatta town, in the south of the occupied West Bank.
2 Oct, 2020
- At least 15 Palestinians were injured by Israeli occupation forces during the weekly protest against Israeli settlements, which takes place every week in the village of Kafr Qaddum in the northern West Bank.
- An Israeli settler rammed his car into a flock of sheep to the south of Hebron city, killing 10 sheep.
3 Oct, 2020
- Two Palestinians sustained bruises after they were attacked by illegal Israeli settlers in the village of Huwwara, to the south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
- The Israeli occupation forces blocked a road linking two northern West Bank villages, barring movement between them for their Palestinian residents.
- Several Palestinians were injured, including four shot by rubber-coated metal bullets, in the Israeli army crackdown on the weekly anti-settlements protest in the northern West Bank village of Kufr Qaddoum.
4 Oct, 2020
- Dozens of Israelis demonstrating against embattled Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu were arrested during clashes with the police in Tel Aviv and in other locations where anti-Netanyahu protests resumed across the country.
5 Oct, 2020
- Two Palestinian youths were injured by Israeli army gunfire in the occupied territories.
- The Israeli occupation forces detained at least nine Palestinians in the occupied territories, including one following an alleged stabbing attempt in the south of the West Bank.
- Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian youth at Ennab checkpoint, east of Tulkarm city.
6 Oct, 2020
- An Israeli warplane fired one missile at a target in the besieged Gaza Strip causing damage but no casualties.
- An Israeli settler set up a tent on Palestinian-owned land in Birin village, located to the east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
- Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian shepherds to the east of Yatta town, in the south of the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli occupation forces detained nine Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank.
7 Oct, 2020
- Three Palestinians were injured after Israeli settlers assaulted olive harvesters in the groves of Huwara town, south of Nablus.
- Israeli settlers torched an olive grove belonging to Deir Ballut town, west of Salfit,
- The Israeli occupation forces detained 42 Palestinian residents of Issawiya neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem since the start of this month, the latest were five young men detained after storming their homes.
- Following a successful legal action demanding a halt on Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem during the COVID-19 crisis, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel sent another urgent letter on 5 October to the commander of the Israeli military’s Civil Administration demanding he immediately halts the demolition of Palestinian homes in the West Bank as residents contend with another spike in the COVID-19 pandemic.
8 Oct, 2020
- A number of Palestinians suffered from suffocation during an Israeli military raid into Sebastia town, north of Nablus city.
- Israeli occupation authorities banned a Fatah official entry into the occupied West Bank for three months.
- Israeli settlers damaged dozens of olive saplings to the east of Yatta town, south of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
9 Oct, 2020
- A one-year-old Palestinian toddler was injured when Israeli settlers threw stones at a car he was in as it drove on a West Bank road.
- A Jewish settler set fire to hundreds of olive trees in the Palestinian village of Safa, west of Ramallah, after throwing a Molotov cocktail on a hot and dry summer-like day at a field filled with olive trees.
- Israeli soldiers bombarded Palestinians participating in a tree-planting event in the northern West Bank village of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, with teargas in an effort to disperse them after preventing many others from reaching the event since the morning hours.
- At least four Palestinians were injured by Israeli occupation forces during the weekly protest against Israeli settlements, which takes place every Friday in the village of Kafr Qaddum in the northern West Bank.
- Israeli occupation forces ordered the demolition of an inhabited Palestinian-owned house in the village of al-Khader, to the south of Bethlehem City in the occupied West Bank.
10 Oct, 2020
- Israeli occupation soldiers detained a 26-year-old Palestinian man for defending him home against Jewish settlers who attacked Palestinian homes in the village of Burin, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
- A Muslim Palestinian woman who was banned by the Israeli occupation authorities from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem was harassed by Jewish fanatics as she performed the Friday prayer on Mount of Olives overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem.
- The Israeli occupation forces detained 21 Palestinians from throughout the occupied territories, 12 of them were from the southern West Bank district of Hebron.
- Israel’s declaration of 130 military zones in the occupied West Bank, which means they will be off limit to Palestinians, affects the olive harvest season for hundreds of Palestinian families.
- Several Palestinians were injured as Israeli occupation forces attacked a rally in the village of Rafat, to the north of Jerusalem.
11 Oct, 2020
- Israeli navy opened gunfire towards Palestinian fishermen sailing offshore Gaza City forcing them to leave to the shore.
- A number of Palestinian protesters suffered suffocation when Israeli occupation forces fired teargas at them, during clashes that erupted near the Israeli Gishory factories, illegally built on Palestinian land west of the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm.
- At least 12 Palestinians were injured by Israeli gunfire as the Israeli occupation forces raided al-Amari refugee camp, in the heart of Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank.
12 Oct, 2020
- The Israeli occupation authorities have approved the construction of hundreds of new housing units on expropriated Palestinian lands to the west of the occupied southern West Bank city of Bethlehem to expand an illegal colonial settlement.
- Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers harvesting their olive crops in the village of Burqa, northeast of Ramallah.
- Israeli military occupation blocked several agricultural roads in villages of Zububa and Ti’inik, to the west of the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin, obstructing movement of farmers and the olive harvest season.
- Three brothers from the town of Halhoul in the south of the West Bank were among 12 Palestinians Israel has detained in raids at their homes in the occupied territories.
- Israel seems to be starting to turn some roads in the occupied West Bank into a settlers-only roads, indicating a system of apartheid being implemented in the occupied Palestinian territories and raising concern that Palestinians will not be able to use these roads to move between West Bank cities.
- Palestinians who were able to access their land located beyond Israel’s apartheid barrier in the Salfit area in the north of the occupied West Bank found out that their olive crops have been stolen and dozens of trees cut.
13 Oct, 2020
- For the second time in 48 hours, Israeli occupation forces raid Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority, to arrest Palestinian activists.
- A new illegal Israeli settlement outpost is in the making in the southern West Bank village of Kisan, east of Bethlehem, after settlers have fenced off dozens of dunums of Palestinian land and set up caravans on the usurped
- Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers harvesting their olive crops in the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah.
- Israeli settlers stole the olive crops in al-Jabaa village land, southwest of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, and cut branches of trees.
- Israeli occupation forces barred al-Zawiyeh municipality in the north of the West Bank from refurbishing a rural road intended to facilitate movement of farmers during the olive harvest season.
- Israeli occupation forces detained at least eight Palestinians from various parts of the occupied territories.
14 Oct, 2020
- Israeli occupation authorities notified a Palestinian of removing his residential tent in al-Farisiya village, east of Tubas city, in the northern Jordan Valley.
- Israeli settlers started the groundwork for the construction of a settler-only road on Palestinian-owned land to the southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
- Israeli settlers cut wodden electric poles using chainsaw in Jalud town, south of Nablus city.
- The Israeli navy attacked Palestinian fishermen while sailing off northern Gaza shore forcing the fishermen to return to the port.
- As Palestinians attend to their annual olive harvest season in the occupied territories, Israeli settlers vandalized hundreds of olive trees in the south of the West Bank.
- The Israeli occupation authorities approved the construction of 2166 housing units in its illegal settlements built in the occupied Palestinian territories.
15 Oct, 2020
- Israeli occupation forces detained at least 24 Palestinians from the occupied Palestinian territories, half of them youths from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Isawiyya.
- Three months after Israeli settlers had seized Palestinian land in the occupied northern Jordan Valley and planted it with trees, the settlers set up a caravan on that land, which is a prelude to establishing an illegal settlement outpost.
16 Oct, 2020
- Israeli occupation authorities announced their takeover of about 11,000 dunums of (1,000 hectares) of Palestinian land in the northern Jordan Valley region in the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli occupation forces detained two Palestinians during raids in the southern West Bank governorate of Hebron.
- At least three Palestinians were injured when Israeli occupation forces attacked farmers and volunteering activists joining them in harvesting olives in the village of Burqa, to the east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
17 Oct, 2020
- An Israeli navy boat opened fire and its water hose at Gaza fishermen sailing off the northern shores of the Gaza Strip and forced them to cut short their work at sea.
- Israeli settlers vandalized around 30 olive trees in the northern West Bank village of Qaryout, south of Nablus, as the olive harvest season in Palestine is at its peak.
- Israeli occupation forces assaulted and dispersed dozens of Palestinians who were peacefully protesting in Masafer Yatta locality, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, against the Israeli colonial settlement policy and land grab.
18 Oct, 2020
- Israeli occupation forces tore a residential tent housing a Palestinian family in Masafer Yatta, a Bedouin locality to the south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
- Extremist Israeli settlers razed plots of land in the village of Urif, to the south of the occupied West Bank of Nablus.
- Israeli occupation forces demolished a house and agricultural structures and destroyed water networks in Masafer Yatta, a Bedouin locality to the south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
19 Oct, 2020
- Israeli occupation forces detained nine Palestinians from various parts of the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli settlers hampered media coverage by WAFA staff of the threat to seize a plot of land in Deir Istiya village, north of the northern West Bank city of Salfit.
- The Israeli municipality in West Jerusalem has issued demolition notices against 13 inhabited Palestinian houses in Silwan, a neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem.
- Israeli settlers set up a cattle shed to the west of the illegal Israeli colonial settlement of Maskiyot in the northern Jordan Valley.
20 Oct, 2020
- Israeli settlers kicked Palestinian farmers out of their land Deir al-Hatab village, located to the east of Nablus city.
- Israeli settlers flooded Palestinian-owned land with sewage and wastewater in Sebastia town, north of Nablus city.
- Israeli occupation forces detained nine Palestinians from various parts of the occupied territories.
21 Oct, 2020
- Israeli occupation forces sealed shut a room in the house of an alleged Palestinian attacker in Yabad town, to the south of the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
- Israeli warplanes bombed a site and agricultural land to the south and center of the besieged Gaza Strip without inflicting any human casualties.
- The Israeli occupation army detained at least 14 Palestinians, including minors, during raids at their homes in the occupied territories.
- Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian-owned house and seized construction equipment in the town of al-Khader, to the south of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to the house owner who confirmed that this is the fourth time in two years Israeli forces demolish his house for alleged construction without a permit.
22 Oct, 2020
- Israeli settlers flooded Palestinian- West Bank village lands with sewage and wastewater.
- Israeli occupation forces detained 23 Palestinians, including two teens and an injured man, from various parts of the occupied West Bank.
23 Oct, 2020
- Israeli warplanes stroke two sites in the central and southern besieged Gaza Strip.
- Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles in Burin town, south of Nablus city, injuring two.
- Israeli occupation forces injured five Palestinians as the former attacked dozens of activists protesting in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near the city of Qalqilia in the occupied West Bank.
24 Oct, 2020
- Israeli settlers vandalized olive trees in the north of the West Bank and chased and attacked Palestinian herders in the south.
- A Palestinian farmer sustained a moderate injury in his head today when a group of rampaging hardcore Israeli settlers attacked the village of Asira al-Qibliya, to the south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
25 Oct, 2020
- A Palestinian teenager was killed after he was severely beaten by Israeli occupation soldiers near the village of Turmus-Ayya, to the northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli occupation forces searched the vehicle of Minister Walid Assaf, Chairman of the Palestinian Authority’s Commission on Apartheid Wall and Colonization Resistance.
- Israeli occupation forces delivered orders to demolish two Palestinian-owned houses in al-Maniya village, southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
26 Oct, 2020
- The Israeli occupation authorities demolished a Palestinian-owned house in Taybeh village, located near the apartheid barrier west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
- As Palestinians are actively involved in harvesting their olive crops, Israeli army bulldozers uprooted dozens of olive trees as they razed a large area of Palestinian land in the northern West Bank city of Salfit.
- Israeli occupation forces detained 13 Palestinians, most of them former prisoner and including a cancer patient, from various parts of the occupied territories.
27 Oct, 2020
- The Israeli occupation authorities demolished a Palestinian-owned house for construction in the Israeli-controlled Area C of the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli occupation forces detained 10 Palestinians, including a journalist and three minors, from various parts of the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli military bulldozers demolished a Palestinian-owned nursery at the entrance of al-Samou town, in the south of the occupied West Bank.
28 Oct, 2020
- Israeli bulldozers demolished three Palestinian-owned structures near Abu Dis town, southeast of Jerusalem.
- Israeli occupation forces issued demolition orders against several Palestinian–owned houses in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Isawiyya, and took pictures of others.
- Israeli forces detained at least five Palestinians, including an Islamic Waqf official, from various parts of the occupied territories.
30 Oct, 2020
- Israeli forces shot and injured three Palestinians near Jalameh military checkpoint, northeast of Jenin city.
- Israeli settlers vandalized water and electricity networks in As-Sawiya village, south of Nablus city.
- Israeli forces cracked an anti-land-grab rally in Beit Dajan village, east of Nablus city, injuring dozens of participants.
- At least one Palestinian was injured by Israeli occupation forces during the weekly protest against Israeli settlement construction, which takes place every Friday in the village of Kafr Qaddum in the northern West Bank.
31 Oct, 2020
- Israeli soldiers attacked Palestinian farmers working on their land in Beit Ummar town, in the south of the West Bank, and forced them to leave their land.
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By: Khaled Reda, Ebtahel Mohamed
